Has anyone got any work out of being on the IOSH consultants register? Are there any agenecies out there worth using as a consultant?

There used to be an IOSH Register of Consultants, that I understand was discontinued after the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR) was set up.

Being on OSHCR resulted in one job as a trainer and numerous emails from companies trying to sell me H&S online/reporting software.

I have seen some insurers make it a requirement that if a business uses an external consultant for H&S then they should be on the OSHCR

quote=David Bannister]Martin#1, if any of my clients were faced with that requirement from an insurer I would be looking very closely at the quality of their other advice and challenging their position.

I doubt that any insurer in the current commercial insurance environment would realistically seek to press this issue, particularly as the Register specifically excludes some highly competent specialists and large numbers of competent consultants have chosen to either abandon their listing or never bothered in the first place.

"Requirements" are very emotive and few insurers now term them as such, preferring the more acceptable term "recommendation" or "risk improvement", waiting until renewal to form an opinion on whether the risk to the insurer's account is sufficiently changed to warrant a change in underwriting terms.

Of course, the immediate requirement to remedy a highly dangerous scenario will always remain valid but this topic hardly falls in to that category.